Essays about: "housing precarity"

Found 5 essays containing the words housing precarity.

1. 1. ‘Overcoming Hopelessness’: Asylum Seekers’ Experiences of Precarity and Empowerment in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialhögskolan; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Hugo Fritjofsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Sweden; asylum; migration; qualitative; refugees; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Sweden has long been seen as a generous, inclusive provider for refugees, historically granting social rights on par with citizens shortly upon arrival. However, extensive recent academic literature has come to critique this perception, highlighting retrenchments and restrictive developments in asylum policy amid increasing precarity for asylum seekers. READ MORE

3. 2. The Framing of Affordability within Ireland’s Housing Discourse : Analysis of the Negotiated Process of Narrative Struggles within the Framing of Affordability within Housing Discourse

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Neil Dunne; [2023]
   Keywords : Affordability; Affordable Housing; Housing Affordability; Housing Policy; Social Constructionism; Narrative; Housing Regimes; Commodification; Decommodification; Welfare Provision;

   Abstract : After the 2008 Global Financial Crash, Ireland’s neoliberal housing policy turned again to housing financialisation as focus lay upon the attraction of corporate investors in order to revive the housing market. The result was a swift return to housing price rises but this came with ever growing homelessness and housing precarity as REITs and other corporate investors' influence on the housing market grew. READ MORE

4. 3. Longing for a Home : Young people’s struggles in Stockholm’s second-hand housing market

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Herman Sjörén; [2021]
   Keywords : Placelessness; housing precarity; home; second-hand housing; phenomenology;

   Abstract : Many young people in the Stockholm metropolitan area struggle with accessing the formal housing market and are therefore relying on short-term, second-hand contracts. By drawing on ten semi-structured interviews this essay explores the second-hand tenant’s ability to feel a sense of belonging towards their home. READ MORE

5. 4. The Unsettlement of the Greek Property Regime and the Emergence of Vigilant Violence in Thessaloniki’s West End

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Nikolaos Vrantsis; [2021]
   Keywords : Housing; Housing System; Property Regime; Loïc Wacquant; Pierre Bourdieu; Social Space; Symbolic Power; Field of power; Thessaloniki; Ksiladika; Vigilance; Vigilant violence; Neoliberalism
; State ;

   Abstract : The thesis inquires into the entanglement between the unsettlement of the Greek model of social reproduction that heavily relies on self-regulated property ownership and the emergence of vigilant violence on behalf of local property owners against undocumented migrants in the relegated neighborhood of Ksiladika in Thessaloniki’s West End. It probes the extent to which incidents of vigilant violence can be used as indicators of the structural deficiencies in the Greek housing system and property paradigm. READ MORE

6. 5. Transformation of a policy instrument for energy renovation of housing : Real case application on the French tax credit for energy transition

   University essay from KTH/Energi och klimatstudier, ECS

   Author : Matthieu Poujol; [2020]
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   Abstract : The fight against climate change and the reduction of energy precarity are two major challenges of the energy policy of any country. Energy management in the building sector, particularly in the housing sector, is therefore crucial, and the energy renovation of housing makes it possible to reconcile these challenges by reducing households energy expenditure and greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector. READ MORE